thesis (SMT)--has acquired increased importance. The 2016 book entitled Why Only Us--co-authored by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick--defines the strong minimalist thesis as follows:

Under the strong minimalist thesis, language is a product of inherited traits as developmentally enhanced through intersubjective communication and social exposure to individual languages (amongst other things). This reduces to a minimum the "innate" component (the genetically inherited component) of the language faculty, which has been criticized over many